25+ Demand Generation Terminologies For CEOs and CMOs

Have you ever thought of sinking your face and die during a very serious conversation, just because of a few people using hefty terms that you don’t comprehend?

Naturally, we all have been through that at least once in our life when we don’t understand the demand generation terminologies used by others. We simply act along to understand and pass an innocent smile to overcome the situation until we manage to google it out as early as possible. To save you from such embarrassing moments, we have collected a few most used Demand Generation terminologies along with their meaning.

1. A/B Testing:

A/B Testing or as a few call it Split Testing juxtapose two types of tests to compare which one performs better. To give an example, you can see which subject line goes better with your emails and gives estimated results by sending the same email with two different subject lines and then picking up the better line on the basis of the responses. There are a few mail sending programs to help you with this.

2. CAC: (Customer Acquisition Cost)

As the term itself hints the meaning, it tells how much expensive it would be to let a new client join you. It is, in fact, the sign of value or cost of your client. Having a clarity of the expenses you will have to incur for the client along with marketing and overall spends will give an idea of the profitability of the deal and help your investors to make decisions too, in case you are planning to raise money through a public fund.

3. CCR: Customer Churn Rate

It is an equation used to know the customer maintenance and value. The equation goes like this

(Customer at the beginning of measurement period) – ( customer at the end of measurement period) / ( customers at the beginning of measurement period)

4. CLTV: Customer Lifetime Value

Customer Lifetime value is the value of your customer for their entire lifetime spend with your business. With the help of these metrics, you can determine the profitability of your customers for your business in the coming years.

5. CMS: Content Management System

Helping you to manage digital content, CMS is almost self-explanatory. As the name suggests, the Content management system is a set of programs or/and software application that helps you manage the content online with ease.

6. COS: Content Optimization System

Any platform that lets you organize all your marketing tools under one roof and makes it even simpler to execute your marketing campaigns are known as COS. HubSpot being one of the most commonly used platforms is a good example of COS.

7. CRM: Customer Relationship Management

CRM is used as a term to define all the techniques and strategies that businesses use to manage their customer relationship. This terminology is also used for the software that is used by the businesses to manage the customer relationship and drive sales growth. You might have come across this term a lot as CRM is also one of the commonly used demand generation terminologies.

8. CRO: Conversion Rate Optimization

CRO is a terminology used when using various testing and key optimization principles you improve your site conversion rate. It also utilizes the process of creating an experience for your visitors to convert them into customers.

9. CPA: Cost Per Acquisition or Cost Per Action

Cost Per Action is when advertisers pay only for a specified acquisition. It is basically an online advertising pricing model. These demand generation terminologies are also used as a metrics to measure how much you pay to attain any conversion.

1o. L2RM: Lead to Revenue Management

Lead to Revenue Management is a customer engagement model. It is used to define all the metrics, processes and goals that are set to engage and capture new customers and to grow overall revenue.

11. LTV:CAC: Lifetime Value to Customer Acquisition Cost

Giving you a high-value insight into what you require to gain a customer, LTV: CAC is one of the most important metrics used by the SaaS companies. It also explains a lot about the returns that you can expect over the lifetime of your engagement with the customers. This helps you understand and determine whether the acquisition cost is utilized well or not.

12. MAP: Marketing Automation Platform

Marketing Automation Platforms are platforms used by the marketers to automate the communication process between them and the customers. They can automate emails, social media posts as well as lead distribution/routine.

13. PPC: Pay-per-Click

PPC or pay-per-click is an internet marketing model used by advertisers. In this model, advertisers pay a certain cost per click on their ads. In other terms, you only pay when someone clicks on your ads and becomes a visitor.

14. SaaS: Software as a Service

SaaS is a term used to refer to the companies which offer services via software that can be accessed online or via a downloaded version. HubSpot, for instance, is SaaS company.

15. UX: User Experience

User Experience, as the name suggests defines itself. The experience that any user gets while using a particular product or services or the website is known as User Experience. UX also highlights the emotional aspect of the experience that users have while using the website or services.

16. ToFu: Top of the Funnel

In a marketing funnel, the topmost portion that focuses on lead generation and targeting the audience is known as ToFu. Generally used by Lead Generation companies and marketers, ToFu is a very commonly used term.

17. MoFu: Middle of the Funnel

MoFu is the middle part of the marketing funnel where generally the nurturing and segregation of MQLs to SQLs happen.

18. BoFu: Bottom of the Funnel

BoFu or bottom of the funnel is the bottom part of the marketing funnel where you utilize your asset and persuade the leads. This is generally a part used by the sales team.

19. BANT: Budget, Authority, Need and Time

BANT is a widely-used method for qualifying B2B sales leads. The basic idea behind BANT is to identify customers first based on their Budget then Authority, Need and Time.

20. Lifecycle Stage

Lifecycle stages are the various stages in the sales cycle used to organize your contacts based on their place in the specific stage. For example, whether your contact is a qualified lead or a subscriber or a customer.

21. Conversion Rate

A conversion rate is the metrics used by the marketers to determine the number of visitors who complete a desired goal out of the total number of visitors. Basically, this conversion rate is the rate of visitors converting into a lead among the total number of visitors on the website.

22. Lead to Customer Rate

Lead to customer rate is the ratio used to determine the number of leads converting into paying customers. It lets you determine whether your sales process is working or not.

23. CAN-SPAM

If you use email marketing in your business then this is one of the most important demand generation terminologies that you should probably keep in mind. CAN-SPAM is an act that is set to determine who can send you commercial emails. According to this law, it gives you the authority to stop anyone to send you emails and tough penalties are set in case of violation.

24. CASL: Canada’s Anti-spam Law

This demand generation terminology is widely used by the telemarketing companies. CASL is one of the most strict and toughest laws of its kind. According to this law, you cannot send an email to anyone in Canada without his/her content. If you deal with email marketing or telemarketing in which you send emails, you need to ask for their consent before mailing them.

25. CPA: Cost-per-Lead

Cost-per-lead is an online advertising pricing model according to which a marketer pays the fee only when a visitor not only click on the advertisement but also fill ups the form or complete the desired goal to become a lead.

26. CPR: Cost-per-Resource

CPR or Cost-per-Resource is a pricing model that is used by the marketers to pay a specific amount of cost for the resource provided by any company. For example, OnlyB2B provides CPR pricing system to their clients. In it, they provide you a team of experts who give you specific services like lead generation through telecalling. CPR is comparatively is a better pricing system as it gives you a scope of gaining more leads.

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Author Vikas Bhatt

Vikas is the co-founder of OnlyB2B ITES Pvt Ltd and a Demand Generation cum Data Cleansing Expert. He has 10+ years of experience in B2B Lead Generation, Data Mining, and Content Syndication.
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